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...gotten over the effects of what I saw. . . . I should say that I am a fifty-year-old woman who has been a nurse for 20 years and is used to upsetting situation. As I sum it up, the Cambridge police HATE the Harvard boys with a vicious, brutish hatred. It was so obvious a child could see it, but of course, the boys had to suffer...
...Sinanthropus pekinensis, dating back to the Pleistocene era, is believed by some anthropologists to be older than Pithecanthropus erectus, the brutish apeman of Java...
Warden Duffy began one of the most dramatic housecleaning jobs in penal history. He fired the brutish captain of guards and six other sadistic "screws," sternly prohibited the use of clubs, lashes, straps and hoses. He closed up the "hole" -a dungeon of airless, lightless, unfurnished, iron-doored stone cells into which convicts were thrown as punishment for even the most trivial offenses. San Quentin still shaved prisoners' heads and dressed them in numbered uniforms. Duffy abolished both practices. Men were fed out of buckets. Duffy installed a cafeteria and hired a dietitian...
...nervous, Don of crudities; Don clerical, Don ordinary, Don self-absorbed and solitary; Don here-and-there, Don epileptic; Don puffed and empty, Don dyspeptic; Don middleclass, Don sycophantic, Don dull, Don brutish, Don pedantic; Don hypocritical, Don bad, Don furtive, Don three-quarters mad; Don (since a man must make an end), Don that shall never be my friend...
...tolerant satirist's view of that same decay in The Miraculous Barber. Sweden's Pär Lagerkvist won the Nobel Prize (he was Faulkner's runner-up last year) soon after his Barabbas was published in the U.S. It was the story of a brutish man, spared from crucifixion in place of Jesus, who carried the memory of Golgotha through the rest of his life. Only a brief sample of Lagerkvist, it nevertheless commanded respect. Two other foreign novels, hard to classify, showed skill with out-of-the-way locales. Edgar Mittelholzer's Shadows Move...